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    Culture refers to the shared attitudes, values, and behaviors of a social group. It has several key characteristics: it is learned, shared, cumulative, changing, diverse, and provides norms that guide acceptable behavior. There are two main components of culture - communication components like language and symbols, and material components like tools and technology. Culture is transmitted through enculturation, acculturation, and assimilation. Culture is important as it helps fulfill human potential, allows people to adapt to their environment, provides social rules, and gives a sense of identity.

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    Culture refers to the shared attitudes, values, and behaviors of a social group. It has several key characteristics: it is learned, shared, cumulative, changing, diverse, and provides norms that guide acceptable behavior. There are two main components of culture - communication components like language and symbols, and material components like tools and technology. Culture is transmitted through enculturation, acculturation, and assimilation. Culture is important as it helps fulfill human potential, allows people to adapt to their environment, provides social rules, and gives a sense of identity.

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    Culture refers to the shared attitudes, values, and behaviors of a social group. It has several key characteristics: it is learned, shared, cumulative, changing, diverse, and provides norms that guide acceptable behavior. There are two main components of culture - communication components like language and symbols, and material components like tools and technology. Culture is transmitted through enculturation, acculturation, and assimilation. Culture is important as it helps fulfill human potential, allows people to adapt to their environment, provides social rules, and gives a sense of identity.

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    CULTURE 1.

    Norms- are rules and expectations by


    - Every society has a culture, no matter how which a society guides the behavior of
    simple the culture may be, and every human its members.
    being is cultured in the sense of participating
    in some culture or other. Types of Norms
    - Refers to the attitudes, values, customs, and  Mores- are customary behavior patterns or
    behavior patterns that characterize a social folkways which have taken a moralistic value
    group.  Laws- are formalized norms, enacted by
    people who are vested with government
    CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE power and enforced by political and legal
    1. Culture is learned- the first essential authorities designated by government.
    characteristic of culture  Folkways- are behavior patterns of society
    2. Culture is shared by a group of people- which are organized and repetitive.
    commonly shared by some population or  Rituals- are highly scripted ceremonies strips
    group of individuals. of interaction that follow a specific
    3. Culture is cumulative- new knowledge is sequence of actions.
    being added to what is existing.
    4. Cultures change- new cultural traits are 2. Material Components
    added, some old ones are lost because they - refers to physical objects of culture such as
    are no longer useful. machines, equipment, tools, books, clothing
    5. Culture is dynamic- no culture is ever in a etc.,
    permanent state it is constantly changing. Examples;
    6. Culture is diverse- the sum total of human  Tools, Medicines
    culture consists of great many separate  Books
    cultures, each of them are different.  Transportation
    7. Culture gives us a range of permissible  Technologies
    behavior patterns- every culture allows a
    range of ways in which men can be men and CULTURE IS TRANSMITTED THROUGH:
    women can be women. 1. Enculturation- it is the process of learning
    culture of one’s own group.
    COMPONENTS OF CULTURE 2. Acculturation- it is the process of learning
    A. Communication Components some new traits from another culture.
    1. Language- defines what it means to be 3. Assimilation- it is the term used for process
    human. It form the core of all culture. in which an individual entirely loses any
    2. Symbols- form the backbone of symbolic awareness of his/her previous group identity
    interactions. and takes on the culture and attitudes of
    another group.
    B. Cognitive Components
    1. Ideas/Knowledge/Beliefs- are mental Importance and Function of Culture
    representations (concepts, categories, 1. Culture helps the individual fulfill his
    metaphors) used to organize stimulus. potential as a human being
    2. Values- refers to defined standards off 2. Through the development of culture man
    difficulty, desirability, goodness and beauty can overcome his physical disadvantages
    which serve as broad guidelines for social and allows us to provide ourselves with fire,
    living. clothing, food and shelter.
    3. Accounts- are how people use that common 3. Culture provides rules of proper conduct
    language to explain, justify, rationalize, for living in society.
    excuse, or legitimize our behavior to 4. Culture also provides the individual his
    themselves and others. concepts of family, nation, and class.

    C. Behavioral Component (how we act)

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